New Delhi, The DMRC on Tuesday informed the Delhi Excessive Courtroom it was not in favour of fixing the Hindi signage for ‘Supreme Courtroom’ metro station to ‘Sarvoch Nyayalaya’ in Devanagari script as it could entail a monetary burden on the exchequer.
The counsel for the Delhi Metro Rail Company submitted earlier than a bench of Chief Justice D Ok Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia that such an replace has an expenditure of ₹40-45 lakh.
Moreover the signage on the station, a number of different modifications within the street maps, cellular purposes, and so on, must be made, she defined.
“It comes as a monetary burden. One such change is ₹40-45 lakh per station… It is a PSU,” the counsel submitted.
The DMRC counsel additional stated altering the identify of 1 station may have a ripple impact, leading to different related litigation for different metro stations.
The court docket responded that a fear of a number of litigation couldn’t be a floor to oppose the plea and directed the DMRC to file its affidavit.
The court docket was listening to a public curiosity litigation filed by Umesh Sharma objecting to the identify of the metro station as ‘Supreme Courtroom’ as a substitute of ‘Sarvoch Nyayalaya’ for Hindi signage.
In assist of his declare, the petitioner had identified that the ‘Central Secretariat’ metro station was ‘Kendriya Sachivalaya’ in Hindi.
The petitioner earlier submitted that as per the Official Languages Act and its guidelines, all manuals, signages and identify plates in Central authorities workplaces must be in English and Hindi, and using Hindi must be in Devanagari script.
The petitioner’s counsel identified that the Supreme Courtroom’s Hindi identify by itself web site was ‘Bharat ka Sarvoch Nyayalaya’.
The matter can be heard subsequent in April.
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